• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    1 day ago

    It takes a bit of time for fertilizer to return into food. Over a third of global fertilizer, and half the sulfur used to manufacture fertilizer pass through the straight. Fertilizer prices have already spiked, and we are entering planting season. This is on top of what was lining up to be a horrible year for crops because of climate change and a transition from La Niña to El Niño. It’s going to be bad.

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      20 hours ago

      Well, it’s kind of damned if you do damned if you don’t. As you point out, climate change is already fucking us over with respect to food production and that’s only going to get exponentially worse. The less oil we use now the more time we have to develop and implement alternatives. Even if there is some short-term suffering it’s probably net beneficial to the world’s poor in the long run.

      Of course we could easily make this transition without hurting the poor if we so chose but the powers that be have no interest in this.

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        11 hours ago

        Well, it’s kind of damned if you do damned if you don’t.

        Nope, I live in a wealthy first world country with the capacity to not be damned either way. I will almost certainly be inconvenienced, but realistically I’ll be fine.

        Lots of people will be “damned” though, and there are far better solutions to climate change than letting them starve because of Zionist warmongers.